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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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